“Vigilantism is murder and you are blind.”
Look, I understand. A cherished belief has been challenged, and you can’t find an answer to the question, “Why do you believe that?”
Becoming angry with me won’t help you.
Find a quiet place and ask yourself why our right to self-defense is entrusted completely and solely to the government, and why we lose that right if the government won’t enforce it.
You aren’t ‘defending yourself’ by plowing a van into random targets. No more than Dylan Roof was defending anything.
Even lynching isn’t a defense, it is mob rule (and was practiced against a variety of crooks and crimenals awaiting trial and even those broke strikes, not just black people.
Yep, the citizens know what they have to do. The British are at war.